TY  - JOUR
ID  - open967
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02758-0
IS  - 2
A1  - Suresh, K.
A1  - Reddy, G.S.N.
A1  - Sengupta, S
A1  - Shivaji, S
N2  - An arsenic- and radiation-resistant bacterium, strain Wt/1aT, was isolated from water from an arsenic-contaminated aquifer located in the Chakdah district of West Bengal, India. The bacterium stains Gram-negative and is rod-shaped, non-motile, non-sporulating and red-pigmented. Cell-wall peptidoglycan contains ornithine as the diamino acid, MK-8 is the major menaquinone, C15?:?1 and C16?:?1 are the major fatty acids and the DNA G+C content of the organism is 65·8?mol%. Based on these phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain Wt/1aT was identified as a member of the genus Deinococcus. Strain Wt/1aT exhibited maximum 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (95?%) with Deinococcus grandis; however, strain Wt/1aT exhibited only 14?% similarity to D. grandis IAM 13005T at the DNA?DNA level. Furthermore, strain Wt/1aT (compared to D. grandis IAM 13005T) is more resistant to arsenate and arsenite, is positive for arginine dihydrolase, utilizes a number of carbon sources and exhibits quantitative differences in fatty acid composition and qualitative differences in lipid composition. Strain Wt/1aT is identified as a novel species of the genus Deinococcus, for which the name Deinococcus indicus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Deinococcus indicus is Wt/1aT (=MTCC 4913T=DSM 15307T). 
VL  - 54
TI  - Deinococcus indicus sp. nov., an arsenic-resistant bacterium from an aquifer in West Bengal, India
AV  - restricted
EP  - 461
N1  - Copyright of this article belongs International Union of Microbiological Societies. 
Y1  - 2004///
PB  - International Union of Microbiological Societies 
JF  - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
KW  - DPG
KW  -  diphosphatidylglycerolPC
KW  -  phosphatidylcholinePG
KW  -  phosphatidylglycerolPI
KW  -  phosphatidylinositol
SN  - 1466-5026
SP  - 457
ER  -